Tapia released from hospital

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Retirement from the ring has not made the life of Johnny Tapia, the former three-weight world champion, less turbulent. The American, 40, has been released from hospital after an alleged cocaine overdose and while he was in a coma, his brother-in-law, who had been in his corner for all 63 of his bouts, was killed in a car crash.

Tapia never knew his father, was orphaned at 8, when his mother was murdered, has had numerous problems with alcohol, drugs and the law and claims that he has been declared clinically dead six times.